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Abstract: 

The devastation that often accompanies substance abuse places notoriously heavy demands on the criminal justice, correctional, and substance abuse treatment systems, as well as on inmates, their families, and their communities. The prison system has the unique potential to provide effective drug treatment to this population, and a substantial body of research documents that treatment is, on the whole, more effective than incarceration alone in reducing drug abuse and criminal behavior among substance abusers and in increasing the likelihood that they will remain drug and crime free. This article is a summary of a research study that details the project’s findings and the 33 specific recommendations for enhancing substance abuse treatment in NYS prisons.

Keywords: drug treatment

Affiliations:  1: Correctional Association of New York; 2: Correctional Association’s Prison Visiting Project; 3: Prison Visiting Project.